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|Sustainable Development Target 09.3 increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, particularly in developing countries, to financial services including affordable credit and their integration into value chains and markets
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How to achieve? Where is action needed?
For open data regarding this target see #SDG9 - Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation.
Several articles of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda or the New Urban Agenda describe possible initiatives. If these articles are not listed here, then look them up via Search the Actor Atlas using one or more of these terms credit financial-services markets small-scale-industrial-enterprises value-chains.
If you have questions, needs, ideas, answers, comments about "achieving this target near you" we recommend you to use also your neighbourhood's #WWlgu #tagcoding hashtag which can be found via Your community leading sustainable development? #WWlgu for #LocalizingSDGs.
- Indicator 09.3 - Percentage share of (M) small scale industries' value added in total industry value added
- Indicator 09.3.1 - Percentage share of (M) small scale industries' value added in total industry value added ( BAA )
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Women's golf:
The Tatura Hotel sponsored Hill Top's 4BBB stableford event, which saw the top eight pairs qualify for match play in the Edna Starrit event.
Colleen Johns and Di Day won the day with 46 points, followed closely by Sheryl Curran and Robyn Downs with 45 points.
The ball winners were Jan Coe and Sue Turnbull with 42, and Lyn Fanning and Bev Roberts, Pat Serra and Wilma Saunders, and Judy Baker and Liz Mulcahy with 41.
Nearest the pins went to Robyn Downs on the third (Gallery Cafe´), Elaine Dunk on the sixth (Tatura Hot Bread), Deb Reilly on the ninth (Alofa Cafe´), and Bev Roberts on the 14th (One4One Cafe´).
The top eight pairs to play off for the Edna Starrit trophy include Colleen Johns and Di Day, Sheryl Curran and Robyn Downs, Jan Coe and Sue Turnbull, Pat Serra and Wilma Saunders, Lyn Fanning and Bev Roberts, Judy Baker and Liz Mulcahy, Josie De Ieso and Many McGrath and Bec Jeffers and Tracy Lowry.
The quarter-final is to be played on or before September 22.
Nine-hole event: Janet Leahy, who recently returned from holidays, played well to win the event with 23 points. Roylyn Harris was runner-up with 17 points, while Lois Rogers won a ball with 16 points.
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Pam S – Castaic
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"Wish I could give these guys SIX stars!!!! I am so crazy in love with our new artificial turf. Steve Rice came out and gave us a COMPLETE bid with many, many turf choices. We went with a fescue that had a very low sheen, and was so incredibly soft it made me want to lie down and take a nap on it. When hired, he gave us a date and time and showed up as arranged on time and with a great crew. He again took the time while they were working to explain each step/process and oversaw all that was being done. They were so professional, neat and quiet I hardly knew they were there until I looked out and I had an amazing new lawn. We have now had our artificial turf for almost 2 months in the hottest of our SoCal weather and it is holding up amazingly, it is everything we'd hoped for and more. Thank you, thank you, thank you Steve and crew. Once our HOA gets its head out of the sand we will be calling you to do our front yard!!!!"
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This is a rush transcript from "The Kelly File," September 15, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
MEGYN KELLY, HOST, "THE KELLY FILE": Breaking tonight, less than 24 hours to go before the next presidential debate and we have a huge show for you.
Big news from the latest poll just out. Four of the top presidential contenders join us with a preview of their debate strategy and new comments just coming in from Donald Trump.
Welcome to "The Kelly File," everyone. I'm Megyn Kelly. We start with a live look at the USS Iowa in California where Mr. Trump is due to speak momentarily about international challenges and veterans issues, giving him the chance to strengthen his standing with the military community.
We will be streaming this live at FoxNews.com and we will bring you the news as it happens.
But one of the big political stories today is the new polling, showing a statistical dead heat now for the top spot in the Republican race for the White House. Look at this. Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson are now effectively tied for first in the latest "CBS News/New York Times" national poll.
Mr. Trump at 27 percent, Dr. Carson 23 percent, which is well within the margin of error.
And when you take a closer look at where the candidates stood just about a month ago, the numbers are even more stunning. Donald Trump has gained support up 3 points since early August prior to the Fox News debate. But look at Dr. Ben Carson. His numbers have nearly quadrupled from six percent in early August to 23 percent now.
Tonight, we will be joined by four presidential candidates, which may be a first for "The Kelly File" or for any show for that matter.
Dr. Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul. Plus, we'll have analysis tonight from Brit Hume. And we'll speak to the group at the center of a new dispute with Donald Trump. They have unleashed a pair of attack ads on him and, whoa, has he fired back.
But we begin tonight with a man who has shaken up the polls surging right to the top, retired Pediatric Neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson.
Dr. Carson, good to see you tonight. So how do you see --
DR. BEN CARSON, R-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you.
KELLY: -- your strategy for tomorrow night's debate given the help you gave yourself in the last presidential debate?
CARSON: Well, I don't think that my strategy is going to change at all. It's going to be to tell the truth and to talk about, you know, my vision for America which I think is something that a lot of people resonate with.
You know, the polls are not particularly surprising, given the fact that I'm out there amongst the people a lot. And I have been seeing the level of enthusiasm and the size of the crowds for quite some time. It hasn't really been reported on, but we have seen it so this is not very surprising.
KELLY: You talk about your vision. And this is something that you have written an op-ed on in The Journal. And you come out and say in this piece "America needs a new paradigm. A paradigm that emphasizes that strength comes from within each of us. That to change our country, we must embrace old-fashioned values such as respect, compassion, and responsibility."
What do you mean by that?
CARSON: Well, I mean, you know, America is an incredible country. By far the greatest country the world has ever known. Before we came along, people did things the same way for thousands of years. Within 200 years of the advent of America, men were walking on the moon. And we reached a pinnacle much faster than anybody else and a much higher pinnacle. And that was because of the values that we manifested.
You know, there are a lot of people who like to look at us and they say yes, but you guys had slavery and you hurt the Native Americans and you had Japanese internment camps. I don't deny that those things occurred but we learned from them.
We have people inhabiting this country and any time you have people inhabit it, you are going to have imperfections, but you are able to get beyond those things to learn from those things and move on. And that's what we did. And as a result, we have a country that had the highest standards of living and was the one who really created a higher standard for the rest of the world.
KELLY: Your emphasis on compassion is something your colleagues, your former colleagues at Johns Hopkins University, tells us has been part of your character for a while. This comes from blurb offered on your book, from the president of John Hopkins University Steven Mueller at the time. "What makes Dr. Carson extraordinary is his compassion, modesty and sensitivity. He serves as a splendid example for young people."
Compassion in some conservative circles raises alarm bells of he is going to be a big spender. Is that -- how do you mean it?
CARSON: I mean it in terms of us being willing to invest in our fellow man. You know, America has always been an extraordinarily compassionate nation. You know, we were the impetus for socialism because the Europeans looked over here and they saw the Carnegies and the Mellons, and the Fords and the Kellogg's and the Vanderbilts and, you know, they said those people have too much money. We need to have an overarching government.
But what they didn't realize about those names and many others is that instead of just hoarding money, they built the infrastructure of this nation, the transcontinental railroads, the sea ports, the textile mills, the factories, providing the mechanism for the most powerful and dynamic middle-class the world has ever seen, which rapidly propelled us to the pinnacle. And they also built libraries and museums and charitable.
KELLY: But you know how people feel now.
CARSON: .organizations.
KELLY: They feel -- so many feel resentful of the rich. And they -- you know, they feel they are the haves and the have-nots. And I know you have been focused in particular on many folks who live in have-not communities. One of the things you write in your piece is the family unit. That that's what we need to be focused on right now, the family unit. That most crucial inculcator of values has disintegrated and you write, "I'm afraid we are on the front end of a lost generation."
How does the 2016 presidential race factor in to addressing that?
CARSON: Well, I, for one, will be talking about it very substantially about the things that impact the family structure in a negative way. Many of those things are considered politically incorrect because every family structure is supposed to be of equal value than the PC world.
But evidence demonstrates that it is not the case. And we need to be looking at what is driving some of the things that Bernie Sanders likes to talk about, like the big income gap. It is not because wealthy people are wealthy. It is -- one of the reasons is because we have so many regulations. And every regulation cost in terms of goods and services, but who gets disproportionately hit by that? The poor people and the middle class. Nobody is really talking about that and that is a very substantial problem.
KELLY: Somebody is calling so I have got to let him go. It may be Barbara Walters. She also gave you a nice blurb for your book.
Dr. Carson, it's great to see you. We will be watching tomorrow night.
CARSON: All right. Thank you, Megyn.
KELLY: All the best.
Well, we are only getting started tonight with Carly Fiorina and Senator Marco Rubio up next on their strategies for tomorrow. And then Senator Rand Paul talks about his plan for taking on Trump.
Plus, Brit Hume is here to talk about who faces the highest stakes on the big stage tomorrow night.
And then we will speak with a conservative group now spending a million bucks to go after Donald Trump in the State of Iowa. That group's message and Trump's response just ahead.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Trump wants us to think he is Mr. Tell-It-Like-It- Is, but he has a record, and it's very liberal. He is really just playing us for chumps. Trump, just another politician.
KELLY: Breaking tonight, Donald Trump launches a new attack in his back and forth battle with Carly Fiorina. It comes right before the two face off on tomorrow night's debate stage. And that's also the first time they will be together since Trump took a shot at Fiorina's looks in Rolling Stone magazine.
Saying, quote "Look at that face? Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that? The face of our next president?"
Carly then responded with this ad.
CARLY FIORINA, R-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Ladies, look at this face.
This is the face of the 61-year-old woman. I am proud of every year and every wrinkle.
KELLY: Then, last night in Dallas, Trump seemed to suggest that he is the victim here.
TRUMP: You know, it's incredible. I make like statements because, you know, Carly is giving me a little bit of a hard time even though her poll numbers are horrible. She is the one, she was another one, she is surging, Ben is -- everybody is surging but me.
KELLY: The former Hewlett-Packard CEO and presidential candidate Carly Fiorina joins me now.
Carly, great to see you tonight. So, do you believe that he is playing the victim here, acting like you are coming after him, after he insulted your face?
FIORINA: Well, I don't know. You know, honestly Donald Trump says all kinds of things. I don't really worry much about what Donald Trump says, honestly. I'm out there talking with voters every day. This isn't entertainment, although, it's obviously very entertaining to many people. But these are actually serious times.
Voters don't ask me about Donald Trump or his comments. They ask me about their healthcare or their kids' education? Or how are we going to defeat ISIS, or how are we going to get debt under control. They thank me for answering their questions in terms they can understand. We are at a pivotal point and I think most people know it.
KELLY: But the one thing, the reason it's relevant is not because, you know, is Carly Fiorina a victim. I don't think anybody looks at you and thinks victim. But it's relevant because character matters, does it not? If he is a sexist? Is it important to know that?
FIORINA: Of course, character matters. You know, when you think about leadership, and certainly the Oval Office requires leadership. It is about strength, it is about courage, it is about judgment, it is about temperament, it is most definitely about character. And character requires humility and empathy as well as confidence.
And one of the things that I believe is that character is revealed over time and under pressure. And so I think all of our characters are being revealed over time and under pressure, including Mr. Trump's.
KELLY: Uh-huh. How do you -- you made a comment to a reporter the other day talking about how, you know, half the questions you get ask are about him. And, you know, I confess we have presidential candidates on the show all the time. We talk a lot about him because he is leading in the polls by a lot, because he is compelling to watch on television.
How do you get oxygen in the midst of a race like this, given the presence of a celebrity billionaire, presidential frontrunner like Donald Trump?
FIORINA: Well, you know, with all due respect to pollsters and media people, neither one of them decide elections. Voters do. And so, when I'm on the ground, it turns out that even though I continue to have the lowest name I.D. in the field and tomorrow night's debate is another great opportunity for me to introduce myself to the American people, I'm still in the top five in every single state poll.
In other words, the people who decide elections are voters. And if you go back in every presidential election, the polls, the pundits, the money, the media, all said that Ronald Reagan couldn't win and Jimmy Carter couldn't win and Bill Clinton couldn't win and Barack Obama couldn't win and they all won. And they won because voters decided they should win.
KELLY: What's -- tomorrow night, there is going to be a lot of focus on you. A lot of focus on you, because you weren't on the sort of main stage last time around.
Do you feel that pressure and do you have any sort of a debate ritual that you go through prior to going out there?
FIORINA: Well, you know, I certainly know that this is a big opportunity. It's a big opportunity as I say for me to introduce myself to the almost 50 percent of the nation and Republican primary voters who don't know my name and don't know I'm running for president. So it's a big opportunity and it's a big platform.
In terms of the debate ritual, I really don't, but here is what I think about a lot. Of course, I read up on current issues to make sure I understand what's going on. And I think very carefully, I guess, about what I want to convey in 30 second chunks or a minute chunks. Because the thing about a debate that's a little bit different than campaigning out there every day is you have a very prescribed timeframe.
KELLY: Right.
FIORINA: One of the things that voters say to me all the time is thank you so much for answering my question. Thank you so much for talking in common sense terms that I can understand.
And I want to continue to answer people's questions and speak in common sense terms and I need to do it in 30 seconds or a minute chunks.
KELLY: I read that you play a little solitaire on your phone, too. Is that true?
FIORINA: I do. Yes, I do. I play solitaire on my phone and then the last thing I do, you know, my husband and I have a quiet moment together. And then I spend some time in solitude, in prayer, before it's time to actually go out on that stage.
KELLY: It can't hurt. Carly Fiorina, great to see you.
FIORINA: Nice to see you, Megyn. Thanks for having me.
KELLY: Also, breaking tonight with candidates finalizing their plans of attack ahead of the Republican debate, the challenge for most will be finding an opportunity to break out.
And one of those looking to improve his profile is Florida senator and presidential candidate Marco Rubio.
Senator, great to see you tonight.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO, R-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you.
KELLY: So I don't know if you are looking for a breakout moment or not, but it's always helpful for somebody running for president to find one. Do you have that strategy or any other conscious strategy going into this second debate tomorrow?
RUBIO: I always use these debates as an opportunity to tell people who I am and what I will do if they give me the chance to serve as president. And that's what I try to do in every debate moving forward. It's a chance to speak to a lot of Americans, millions of Americans who are trying to make up their minds.
And I honestly think that despite our challenges, we have very significant challenges. We have a chance to usher in the greatest era in America's history. But, to do that, we need a government that's in touch with our people. We don't have that right now. We are on the road to decline right now, but we can fix this. So that's what I want to talk about tomorrow.
KELLY: So let's talk about it because last time, the last debate you actually were praised in most corners. I didn't see any articles really ripping on you for your debate performance. Most people thought you did a very solid job.
And Ben Carson didn't say too much. But at the end, he had this great answer that got a lot of pickup. And, man, he surged up. And a lot of people say, even he said to me, I think it was because of my debate performance. Do you look for a moment like that? Is it worth trying one moment? One funny moment, one big moment with the audience?
RUBIO: You know, I don't know other people may want to do that I'm just going to continue to try to do well in terms of explaining who I am and what I want to do. And I do think overtime, it has a cumulative effect as voters get ready to make up their minds.
In the end, this is not a game show. It's not a production. And it is, in fact, deciding the most important political office in the world and a very unique one at that.
You are deciding the commander-in-chief of the most powerful military and the leader of the most powerful country on the planet and that's a serious endeavor. That's how we take it. That's how we prepare for it.
KELLY: Yesterday, Donald Trump was on TV talking about his surging poll numbers everywhere and he pointed out Florida, and bragged to the audience that he is ahead of you and Jeb Bush in your home State of Florida. And indeed there is a Quinnipiac Poll putting him at 21 percent and Jeb at 17, and you and Carson tied at 11 percent.
Why is he beating you in your home state?
RUBIO: Well, look, again, he has tapped into a vein in this country. People are really frustrated and angry. I'm not sure there has ever been a time in our history where the political class in Washington has been more out of touch with the lives of our people than it is now and he has tapped into that.
But I think it's not just enough to be frustrated. I'm frustrated. It's the reason why I'm leaving the U.S. Senate after just four years and running for president.
We have to be frustrated, but we also have to allow that to lead us to solutions. And the good news is that everything that's wrong with this country we can fix. Not if we keep electing the same people with the same ideas but if we can elect a new generation of leadership with ideas that are relevant to the challenges before us now. So I think that's the challenge in the months to come is to outline to the American people how we are going to turn this frustration into action and that action into the greatest era in American history.
KELLY: All right. Now, I don't follow football but my football friends tell me that you committed a sin. They say it was a big one. That you made a comment about Florida State and you shouldn't have done that.
RUBIO: I did.
KELLY: You went to the University of Florida. There is a rivalry. And here's what you said.
RUBIO: I don't have anything against Florida State. I think there has to be a school where people that can't get into Florida can go to college. And that's why we have Florida State.
KELLY: And now, apparently, some are saying that's it. He can kiss Florida goodbye and you say?
RUBIO: I say I'm a college football fan. I'm a proud Gator. And there has got to be room in life despite all the serious issues we face for a little college football trash talk. Look, it's great to be a Florida Gator. We look forward. We beat them six out of the last 10 times and we look forward to doing it again on the Saturday after Thanksgiving this year.
KELLY: That's fine. I'll just pretend I understood everything you said and we will move on.
Senator, always great to see you.
RUBIO: Thank you.
KELLY: All the best. Well, we still have Brit Hume just ahead. He has been watching all of this. He will give you his guide on what to watch for tomorrow.
Plus, Senator Rand Paul is next on how he hopes to prove that he is the real conservative on stage and what he is planning for Donald Trump.
SEN. RAND PAUL, R-KY., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: News flash, the Republican Party has been fighting against the single pair system for a decade. So I think you are on the wrong side of this if you are still arguing for a single payer system.
DONALD TRUMP, R-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't think you heard me. You are having a hard time tonight.
KELLY: Breaking tonight, Rand Paul coming out swinging with just 24 hours to go until tomorrow night's G.O.P. debate. The senator has released a new ad in which he touts himself as quote, "A real conservative."
A message, we are told, that is not only an effort to separate himself from the pack, but from one candidate in particular.
Joining me now Senator Rand Paul.
Great to see you tonight, senator. And so you said in an interview that, quote, "I'm not going to sit quietly by and let the disaster that is Donald Trump become the nominee. Do you want someone who appears to still be in grade school to be in charge of the nuclear arsenal? Someone has to bring him down."
How do you plan to do that?
PAUL: Well, you know, I think electioneering, running for office is combat. It's an intellectual combat. And you have to differentiate yourself from others. I think he is running as a conservative. But the Tea Party movement, we were very wary of fake conservatives. Republicans who said they were conservative, but were actually for big government programs.
Donald Trump was for President Obama's stimulus plan. Government stimulus plan. No conservative in America was for it. He was for President Obama's Obamacare. No conservative in America was for that either. But the biggest thing that I think really shows who Donald Trump is, is that when you look at private property rights, sort of the fundamental building blocks of our country, he is for taking property from individual small property owner and giving it to big corporations like his and there are no conservatives in America who are for that. So really I do think he is a fake conservative.
KELLY: He -- you know, these issues about, you know, his prior liberal positions have been raised repeatedly. They don't touch him in the polls. He continues to surge.
PAUL: Well, not yet. They will eventually. Ultimately people are going to have to decide who they want to run the country. And I do mean this very seriously. That someone who is calling another candidate ugly, stupid, fat, all the things he has been saying about other people, is that really the kind of person that's going to have diplomacy with the Soviet Union or with China?
Is that really the kind of person that you want to have in charge of your nuclear arsenal? So I think that sort of unrestrained, uncontrolled narcissism is the best way to put it, is the probably not someone you want to have in charge of your nuclear arsenal.
So I think that ultimately, right now, two thirds of the voters are undecided. Ultimately when they become voters who are actually going to have to make a decision, I think they will think more seriously about whether or not this celebrity that makes them laugh or cringe is really what they want as commander-in-chief.
KELLY: How about you? Your poll numbers have not been good lately. An "ABC News" poll on September 10th puts you at 5 percent, number 6 in the pack. Today, CBS has you at 2.7 percent, number 8 in the pack. Obviously, his numbers are way above yours. Carson is urging.
What has happened? Why have your numbers gone down instead of up?
PAUL: I think right now the race is being influenced by celebrity. I think also, you know, two thirds of the people in each of the polls are undecided. And the pollster says oh, no, really, give us who you are kind of leaning towards. So this is a leaner poll of undecided voters who may or may not be voters. So, we're not disheartened. In fact, we are working even harder. We've now organized 300 schools across the country, 300 colleges. We have 15 colleges in Iowa that we have organized. We had 600 college students at a rally at Iowa State.
KELLY: Lots of ground game going?
PAUL: Yes. We are trying very hard with the ground game. And I think things will shift. I think he has reached his crest. And I really think, ironically, Governor Perry leaving the race was the wakeup call to everybody that my goodness, we are losing candidates that were three and four term governors of large Republican states and yet a reality TV star who is most famous for insulting people is somehow leading the pack.
I think people are going to walk up and say oh, my goodness, this guy could actually be the commander-in-chief and I think they are going to think twice about that.
KELLY: In a word, and I'm out of time, what can we expect from Rand Paul tomorrow night?
PAUL: I'm going to mix it up because I like to rumble and I like to make sure people know the differences between the candidates.
KELLY: Rumble. All right, senator. We will see you. Thank you for being here.
PAUL: Thanks, Megyn.
KELLY: And we have exciting news for you about tomorrow night. Tune in to "Fox News" at 11:00 p.m. for a complete G.O.P. debate analysis. "O'Reilly" starts it off right after the debate ends. It's over on another channel, but you're going to want to come here for fair and balanced analysis after it's over. Right?
Then we'll be on live for a special late edition of "The Kelly File" at midnight. Ben Carson will be back with us. Plus, we have a Frank Luntz focus group. Marc Thiessen and Chris Stirewalt and much more. Then stick around, live, have a coffee and join "Hannity" at 1:00 a.m.
All three of your Fox News primetime hosts are going to be here with you after that debate is over. Keep it right here on FNC.
Well, Brit Hume is up next with a report card on what we are hearing from the candidates tonight. Plus, his guide on what to watch for tomorrow.
And then, we'll speak with a conservative group that just took out a- million-dollar ad buy in Iowa and ask them why they are spending so much to go after Trump.
Plus, I had a chance to sit down with an extraordinary woman -- Ashley Smith. She's the woman taken hostage by a killer who just murdered four people and she tells us how faith saved her life in a new movie that tells her story.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ashley, have you heard of this book? "The Purpose Driven Life?"
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, yes, I have.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It can help. It helped me.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thanks.
KELLY: Breaking tonight. Donald Trump has just wrapped up a speech that had been billed as a, quote, "Major national security address aboard the USS Iowa."
It round up being about 10 minutes long. Hundreds of supporters were on the battleship to listen while groups of protesters were picketing outside the event.
Mr. Trump spent part of time talking about the president's deal with Iran and promised the crowd that he would do a better job on veteran's issues especially when it comes to healthcare.
TRUMP: I will say this, I am with the veterans 100 percent.
TRUMP: They are our greatest people. They are being treated terribly. The -- not only the number of deaths, which are obviously that's tantamount. That's what's going on is incredible.
But, as of two weeks ago on Wednesday, the vets had the longest wait in the history of the veteran's administration. You go in and see a doctor, you wait for days, for days, and it's not going to happen. Not going to happen. If I win, believe me, it's not going to happen.
KELLY: Joining us now, Brit Hume, our Fox News senior political analyst. Brit, good to see you. So, this was an interesting event because Trump had earlier said that he didn't want to lay out his military strategy because, quote, "You don't want to let people know what you're going to do with respect to certain things that happened."
So, we were wondering whether he would do it tonight. It sounds like he talked mostly about veterans' health. You know, does any of this matter at this point in the race so early in September?
BRIT HUME, FOX NEWS SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Well, that remains to be seen, Megyn. Historically, you know, people have been on top of the polls at this time and ended up flaming out. But it's not clear that that's going to happen this time.
What is clear is that it kind of doesn't matter to the people who are now backing Donald Trump what he does. He can announce a speech on a certain subject and get up and say he's going to talk about it at length and get up and talk briefly about something else. That's not going to matter.
He can say that he's not going to take the pledge to support whoever gets nominated and then reverse himself a few weeks later. They are going to be with him whichever ways he goes. And that is...
KELLY: Yes. The core supporters seem to be firmly in his corner. And the CBS News poll that just came out confirms that. That if you're in his corner you're pretty strongly in his corner you're not really wavering right now.
HUME: Right.
KELLY: Although two thirds of the GOP voters still say it's still too early to decide. However, what do you (AUDIO GAP) So, Trump needs to appeal now to more than the core supporters.
And what the numbers showed in that same CBS News poll is that he and Ben Carson are now effectively tied if you count in the margin of error, which is 6 percent here in the national race.
HUME: Well, we can talk about the margin of error and that is certainly true that it is plus or minus six. But even with plus or minus six, I'd rather be at 27 then be at 23.
KELLY: Darn too many (ph).
HUME: I think that, you know, if you look at all the other polls Trump is leading. There is no getting around it.
KELLY: By a lot.
HUME: Trump is winning at the moment.
KELLY: There is nothing that the ABC News poll that ended on September 10th that he had a significant lead.
HUME: That's right. That's right. Certainly, Ben Carson has made up a lot of ground, but it doesn't appear that Ben Carson is taking supporters from Donald Trump. It appears that Ben Carson is taking supporters from the other candidates.
Many of some of whom were sinking to astonishing low levels. And they are all, I think, you know, looking, wondering, what can be done to change the drift of this election.
KELLY: Well, what are the -- you hear Rand Paul talking about he is going to come out swinging, he did that the last time.
HUME: Well, he tried. Remember, he did come out. And he tried the last time. Remember, he interrupted very early on and you guys, you know, properly closed him down because he was, you know, it wasn't his turn. And we didn't hear that much more from him as the debate war on.
He got into it with Chris Christie instead. He may try gain and maybe it will work. But the truth of the matter is, Megyn, is it the people who are trying to get a handle on this guy and figure out how to bring him down or take him down a peg at least don't know what to do.
I mean, they are trying various things. He said the club for growth you are going to speak with later. They have got an ad out. Maybe that will make a difference. But nobody really knows what to do because nobody has ever seen anything like this before.
KELLY: In the end, they attack...
HUME: And I can tell you I never have either.
KELLY: They attack him at their own peril. Because, you know, his supporters really love him and for, you know, all sorts of reasons they fervently support him and get very angry when they feel like he is being attacked. So, there is real risk.
HUME: They sure do.
KELLY: Baked into attacking him by the other candidates.
HUME: Well, there is. And, you know, it's sort of an axiom of politics in a multicandidate race that you have to be careful if you attack another candidate. While you may do that candidate some harm, you may not yourself look very good of doing it and the benefit of it may go to some other candidate. So, that's always a risk.
KELLY: So, given that tomorrow, who could really stand out? Whose big opportunity is this?
HUME: Well, I think it's -- another way to look at it if you don't mind, Megyn, who really needs to stand out.
KELLY: Sure.
HUME: And I would say at this point it's pretty clear that Scott Walker who has had a precipitous drop in the polling down to where he has fallen almost out of sight, he needs to find a way to rally himself and win back some of the following that he had, not so many weeks ago.
Certainly, you know, I was listening to Marco Rubio tonight. He sounded like Marco Rubio sounds. He's articulate, he's pleasant. He is youthful. He has got an interesting record. He is certainly conservative. He's all kinds of things you would think would qualify him in a republican field, and yet, his poll numbers are pretty bleak as well.
And he is, you know, it would be great for him to have a great night. But I think a lot of us thought he had a great night last time and look at all the good it did him.
So, nobody knows what the formula is here except for the moment at least, Donald Trump is, you know, goes around and blustering and bragging and claiming how great it's all going to be and never really quite explaining how he is going to do all these things.
And for some reason the republican voters who said to be angry and tired of politicians are buying his promises. Who knew?
KELLY: It's going to be exciting to watch. Brit, great to see you.
HUME: I have to think so. Thank you, Megyn.
KELLY: Coming up, two stories of faith with two incredibly different outcomes. We'll introduce you to the woman who credits her faith with literally saving her life after being kidnapped.
And we'll bring you an update on the woman whose faith landed her behind bars.
But, next, Donald Trump fires back after a conservative group with very deep pockets mounts a big challenge to the republican frontrunner in Iowa.
UNIDENTIFED MALE: Trump supports eminent domain abuse because he can make millions, while we lose our property rights. Trump, the worst kind of politician.
KELLY: Breaking tonight. A deep pocket of conservative group with a long list of republican donors unleashing a $1 million ad campaign attacking Donald Trump.
The organization, Club for Growth taking aim at the republican frontrunner in two new ads airing in Iowa. Attacking Trump for his stance on taxes and accusing him of supporting liberal policies in the past. Watch.
TRUMP: In many cases I probably identify more as a democrat.
UNIDENTIFED MALE: Trump wants us to think he's Mr. Tell it like it is, but he has a record. And it's very liberal. He's really just playing us for Trump's trump. Just another politician.
KELLY: Today, Trump fired back calling the club's ads an act of revenge after Trump declined to donate money to the group.
Joining us now Club for Growth president, David McIntosh. David, good to see you.
DAVID MCINTOSH, CLUB FOR GROWTH PRESIDENT: Great to see.
KELLY: So, this is Donald Trump came out and said, "Little respected Club for Growth asked me from $1 million, I said no, now they're spending lobbyists and special interest money on ads." He is saying this is sour grapes on your part because he wouldn't give you a million bucks.
MCINTOSH: That's classic Donald Trump. He's the worst kind of politician who won't address the issues. He won't own up to the fact that he's the most liberal guy running but says he is a conservative. And that's what our ad says.
KELLY: This is -- the Club for Growth people should know is a conservative group that tries to get true conservatives elected to powerful positions. And they don't like so-called rhinos or moderates.
MCINTOSH: No. That's right.
KELLY: You backed people like Senator Mike Lee.
MCINTOSH: Yes.
KELLY: Even Senator Marco Rubio, and so, you try to find people who you believe won't raise taxes, and so on. He -- in your ads you charge that Trump will raise taxes that he's for single payer that he was for government run healthcare. Those are old positions he says.
And right now he says the only people he wants to tax are hedge fund guys like seriously rich dudes. This is what he said on O'Reilly earlier tonight.
TRUMP: I'm actually lowering taxes and especially for the middle class. The hedge fund guys are going to have to pay because they pay practically nothing, peanuts. But I am lowering taxes, overall lowering for corporations. And by the way, Club for Growth is a phony outfit.
MCINTOSH: Well, Megyn, we've done this for years. We've got a very good B.S. detector and we can tell when a candidate says what we want to hear, says what voters want to hear. But we look at his record.
And in this case, Donald Trump's record is he's for taxes. He has been for taxes for decades. He still is. He's going to tax everybody's Ford when they come over. Put a huge tax on goods coming from China so that if you're buying a new Apple phone you're going to pay 35 percent more.
Those are tax increases that hit the middle class. And recently, just in the last month, he has been for raising taxes. We're going to tell the truth.
KELLY: He says he's just focused just on the rich. And he says those -- if you make $10 million more a year, you can afford a tax increase, the middle class cannot.
Let me ask you this. Somebody from the Club for Growth said there is going to be more. It's not just he says one million. Is it true?
MCINTOSH: We will continue to pursue this so that we can tell the voters the truth about Donald Trump. And we'll take it all the way through to the primaries. It will come in different places and at different times but the club is committed to getting the word out about Donald.
The worst part is that he's just a politician. He's portraying himself as an outsider, a crusader who will represent middle America. But, he's playing people for Trumps.
KELLY: How is he a politician?
MCINTOSH: Well, the worst kind of politician tells you whatever you want to hear, and then when they get in office they don't keep their promises. Donald has told everybody I'm a conservative even though just a few years ago he said, well, I'm really more comfortable as a democrat.
KELLY: Well, he points out that Ronald Reagan had -- he evolved on many of these issues as well, and says he has as well.
MCINTOSH: You know, Ronald Reagan said, I didn't changed. The democratic Party change and left me. Trump changed because he saw an opportunity.
KELLY: Well, some people get older and they get more conservative. It's not that in the pot really.
MCINTOSH: Yes. It's true to me.
KELLY: I got to go. Great to see you.
MCINTOSH: Great to see you.
KELLY: All the best. Coming up, the incredible story of how one woman's faith literally saved her life after the quadruple murderer at the center of massive manhunt back in 2005 turned up on her doorstep.
She explained while she is certain. A higher power was in control that day and how she manages to use her faith to escape after being held hostage in her own home for some seven hours.
So many people think that the story is about the book. That, this story is about the book. What do you think this story is about?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Police are looking for this man.
The murder suspect Brian Nichol.
UNIDENTIFED MALE: It has in the sky. All choppers up now. Let's let Nichols out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mommy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My name is Ashley and I'm a mother.
UNIDENTIFED MALE: I don't trust you, Ashley. Scream again and I will have to kill you.
KELLY: Oh, that was a clip from the upcoming movie, "Captive," a film based on the incredible true story of a woman named Ashley Smith.
In March 2005, a man who had just murdered four people, including two in open court showed up at her door. That man, Brian Nichols, held Ashley hostage for some seven hours. Incredibly, she managed to survive bonding with her captor by reading him passages from a popular self-help book by Pastor Rick Warren.
Despite chances to escape, Ashley says her faith told her that a higher power would intervene.
There was another opportunity where he convinced you to help him hide the getaway car. He had stolen a car and killed -- I think that was the law enforcement officer's car.
ASHLEY SMITH, "UNLIKELY ANGEL" AUTHOR: Yes.
KELLY: And he got you out of the apartment to help him hide it. Why didn't you run in those moments? What was it? Did you -- were you motivated by fear or was it some knowledge that I'm going to get out of this?
SMITH: I think looking back on it even times when I read the book or watch the movie, even myself, I'm like, go, girl, you need to get out of there. You got a chance. But I think several things went through my mind at that point in time.
Number one, my car was not -- it wasn't a very good car. It had been breaking down on a very irregular basis. And I think I feared that if I tried to get away, that it would immediately break down and I would get stuck.
KELLY: It's too risk. And it's too risky.
SMITH: Also, you know, I really believed that God, once I chose not to do the drugs, god took control and He began to lead that night. And for me, I think I just kept saying eventually he will let me go.
If I let him get in the car and go back to my apartment, then he's not going to have a getaway car. He's going to be at my house all by himself at one point and he'll be surrounded.
And so, I think those things were just going through my head.
KELLY: The Ashley Smith who was there before that encounter, is she still with us?
SMITH: I'm not -- I'm not in a spiritual warfare any more. I'm not fighting that any more. You know, the person that was there that night was still a human being.
I think she is still here because that person was a sinner saved by God's grace. Today, I'm still just a sinner saved by God's grace. You know, that night I laid down my brokenness to God and I gave it to Him. That's what changed.
KELLY: For Ashley, her faith was the key to saving her life. Compare that today with the saga of defiant Kentucky clerk, Kim Davis, whose beliefs actually landed her behind bars.
And while Davis is now back at work and with her family, her attorneys say that this case threatens the core of our country's founding principles.
Mat Staver is an attorney for Kim Davis and the founder and chairman of Liberty Council. Mat, good to see tonight.
MAT STAVER, ATTORNEY FOR KIM DAVIS: Good to be here.
KELLY: Of course, it was Kim Davis' actions based on her faith that landed her in jail. But you handle a lot of these cases. Do you see a noticeably erosion of respect for people following their genuinely held religious beliefs in this country?
STAVER: I certainly do. Especially in this case. I think it was very evident that there was a divide in the country and that divide may even get worse. And sometimes it's governed by political ideology rather than principle.
And if you're in favor of the issue that's at hand that the religious conviction is colliding with, then you're not in favor of the religious accommodation.
And if you're opposed to it then you're in favor of the accommodation. The fact to the matter is it shouldn't be whether we're opposed or against to the issue that is confronting the person of faith. It should be, are we tolerant enough, big enough and respectful enough to protect, and at least try to accommodate a person's deeply held religious convictions.
KELLY: There was an ABC News poll out today that shows 74 percent of Americans believe equality under the law should trump religious beliefs.
However, those polls come down in large part to how the question is asked.
STAVER: Yes.
KELLY: And there's a way for providing an accommodation for religious objectors that still honors the law.
I just want to ask you this Mat, people painted her as a monster. We heard somebody literally call her a monster.
STAVER: Yes.
KELLY: Why don't you tell the audience what Kim Davis has been doing since she's been back to work and what she did with the protesters who were protesting her.
STAVER: Well, one of the -- when she was there before she went to jail for six days during the hot Kentucky sun, she took water out to the protesters that were protesting against her to express her genuine concern for them.
And when she came back, one of the first things that she did is she went to the deputy clerk that did issue the marriage licenses and that indicated that he would do so when she did return, and she went to him, hugged him and said, you don't know how much I love you.
And that's Kim Davis. She is someone who loves people. Because four and half years ago, like for the person that you just featured and it's an amazing story how her faith got through this, four and a half years ago, everything changed for Kim.
And that's where her faith began when she turned her life over to Jesus. And consequently, that just flows through her.
KELLY: She's been loving it.
STAVER: To know Kim Davis is to know a wonderful human being that I think everyone in this country should get a chance to know.
KELLY: Mat Staver, thank you.
STAVER: Thank you.
KELLY: Well, there's more to Ashley Smith's story than we had time to tell you tonight. Tomorrow my exclusive full interview with her, 9 p.m. Eastern.
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Shin Ramen is probably my favourite instant noodle. Its frigging delicious. However it does have palm oil in it, and the fried noodles are not the best for you…
I've been experimenting with some home made variations of the soup and i reckon i've got a good compromise on taste and complexity.
For reference
Delicious but way complicated
Simple but missing something
For around 500ml of soup:
Dashi powder (From japenese shop) 1tsp
Chicken stock 1tsp
gochujang (Korean chilli paste) 1tbspoon
doenjang (Korean soya bean paste) 1-1.5 tablespoon (or more if you like more heat)
gochugaru (Korean chilli flakes) – to taste
Garlic (powder or do it yourself is fine) – bit of a sprinkle (to taste)
and then whatever noodles you like (i quite like the hakubaku or even better are the fresh frozen ones you can get at asian shops), prawns, bits of chicken, corn, dumpling, asian greens, enoki & shitaki mushrooms etc
My ultimate slow cooked ragout is a bastardisation of Heston Blumenthals recipe which i got from here: http://kokrobin.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/spaghetti-bolognese/
and the official Bolognese as decreeed by the Acadmeia Italiana della Cucina in 1982 from here http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Classic-Ragu-alla-Bolognese
This makes a reasonable pot which would probably serve, and clog the arteries of, 8 very hungry people or 12-14 less hungry people
The quantities are vague as i'm a total airhead
Meat Sauce
500gm Osso bucco
500gm pork fore shoulder
2 carrots
1 large onion
3 sticks of celery
full cream milk
red wine
chicken stock
150gm of pancetta
50gm of Jamon (probalby not neccessary, i just had some left over)
5 spice power
6 large cloves of garlic
6 bay leaves
olive oil
dried chilli flakes
1 tub tomato paste
Tomato Compote
can of diced italian tomatoes (again probably dont have to be italian, its just what i had handy)
dried chilly flakes
150ml olive oil
6 large gloves of garlic
5 spice powder
tsp coriander seeds
cracked pepper
For the meat sauce
a/ Soffrito
fry chopped up pancetta and jamon in the pot until fat has rendered
add in crushed and chopped garlic
Add chopped up carrots, garlic and celery
until raw onion smell has gone
b/ Meats
Cut up the meaty bits into chunks
brown in hot pan with olive oil ( i saved some pancetta to render with the meat)
throw meats, including bones and beautiful tendon/cartilege pots into the pot with the soffrito
Deglaze the pan with red wine and add delicious burnt bits into the pot
Pour in 500ml of red wine (i think any wine would work really) (total, i kept adding small amounts every hour or 2)
about 500ml of hot milk (total, i kept adding small amounts every hour or 2)
pour in 2 cups of chicken stock
1 tub tomato paste
Add in bunch of peppercorns, bay leaves, and 5 spice powder, and a sprinkle of dried chilli flakes
cover and simmer for as long as you have patience for
at about 6 hours i scooped everything out and hand tore all the meat into fine shreds (pretty easy as its beautifully tender) and pulled the meat off the bones
i love the cartilege and tendon bits so i tore that up too
pulled out the peppercorns and sad looking bay leaves
Chucked it all back in
Tomato Compote
on low heat with olive oil i put in maybe 15 dried chilli flakes for that bit of warmth
on medium add in the crushed garlic and finely diced onion
add in can of tomatoes
pop in a good amount of cracked pepper, and a sprinkle of 5 spice powder and the corriander
pour in a generous amount of oil and fry the snot out of it to give a nice roasted flavour.
pour off any olive oil that wasn't absorbed by the compote.
Chuck the tomoto compote in with the meat sauce
and cook together for another couple of hours.
at this point you can fiddle with any extra salt or pepper that you think it needs
You can now freeze whatever you dont need
To finish
get as much sauce as you think you'll need in a fry pan and fry off excess liquid – you can choose to leave a bit if you want it a touch more saucy. I made mine pretty dry
Make pasta as per instructions – lots of salted water and 15 min- i like them a touch chewy so i use the lower end of cooking time
drain pasta
throw in about 50g of butter and mix it through the steaming pasta and jiggle it vigorously. I prefer not to rinse as the little starchy bits add interest to this next bit.
Just before serving, put some butter in a pan on a med-high heat and put pasta in to brown so you get lovely crispy bits
This is an astoundingly rich dish so a small portion will probably suffice
Place a small scoop of pasta on plate, a dollop of sauce and grated parmesan
we were at a fancy shindig, and in the manner of students everywhere, keen to sample all the free food and grog available.
A tray of sushi was wafting enticingly around
student "Excuse me, is that vegetarian?"
waitress, after processing this and thinking mightily "I think it's Japanese"
good. glad that was cleared up
So I probably should be studying for imminent exams, but made up a new dish.
Snapper and pasta aglio et olio
you need
1 firm fishy fillet(i used snapper, blue eye cod/trevalla or similar)
4 bits of proscuitto, pancetta or smokey bacon. (enough to wrap around fish. I used 8 super thin bits of proscuitto)
chilli flakes
extra virgin olive oil
Masterfood tuscan herbs seasoning (or similar. make it yourself. i'm too lazy)
lemon juice
light drizzle of olive oil over it
a sprinkle of herbs
bit o pepper
squirt o lemon
cook pasta as normal
while that is happening heat up some olive oil in the pan, and quickly fry the fish on both sides (like 30sec each) and then chuck it under the grill. (or oven at 200 degrees or so for like 10-15min. i'm scared of my oven so i use the grill)
in the same pan, put some chilli flakes and garlic and some more oil on low heat. soften the garlic.
about 2min from pasta doneness, chuck in the asparagus/broccolini
then drain when pasta is done and the vege has gone bright green
stick it into pan with the garlic and chilliflakes and toss it round
with generous amt of pepper
chuck pasta onto plate
chuck fish onto plate
So this is a grossly simplified and bastardised version of Simon Bryant's dish (of Cook and Chef fame and head chef at Hilton Adelaide), which I've never had, but sounded nice. I probably should mention that it tastes pretty good and while probably not as nice as Simon Bryant's version, it does take a heck of a lot less time and stuffing about.
laziness hint – good packet miso soup works fine as the broth and comes with seaweed in it. (i use the S & B ones which seem to be ubiquitous in Miso soup in australia)
you still need miso paste for the marinade though. You can get them in handy 1 use sachets which is great if you don't make a lot of miso.
this is set for 1 portion
Piece o Fish – i used barramundi, but Kingfish or other firm meaty white fish would work
70gm Soba noodles
100ml mirin
2 tspn sugar
asian greens (i used bok choi and choi sum)
enoki mushrooms
shitake mushrooms
50gm miso paste
nori seaweed
silken tofu
chilli oil or chilli flakes
spring onion
bring 100ml of mirin and a dash of sake to a gentle boil
add in about 20gm per piece of fish of Miso paste
mix in 2 teaspons of sugar and mix well
dash of chilli oil or sprinkle of chilli flakes
leave it simmer for 5 min until it reduces a bit and is a little bit glazy
put the fish in a bowl and cover with the marinade for 30min at room temp
After marinade,
heat some oil in a pan and cook the fish so that its got a lovely caramelised glaze
about 3-5min each side
Noodle and broth
Bring water to boil, chuck in miso paste and nori seaweed
put in a sprinkle of chilli flakes/dash of chilli oil
stick in soba noodles
chuck in asian greens and cubed tofu about 2 min after noodles
chuck in mushrooms about 3 min after noodles
stir for another min.
To serve:
put in noodles, tofu and vegetables and mushrooms in a bowl (arrange as your artistic fancy takes you)
pour in broth
place the fish on top of it all
sprinkle with finely chopped spring onion
During term time food gets to be pretty basic variants of pasta, noodles, rice and penut butter an jelly sandwiches
But its holidays and there is time to experiment a bit so I bring you
Grilled Trout with Anchovy-Caper butter sauce on steamed bok choy
You need for 1 serve:
1 big Bok Choy or 2 baby
1 Ocean trout or Salmon fillet with skin
tablespoon Butter
2 Marinated Anchovy fillets
tablespoon o Capers
1 big clove Garlic
Lemon/lemon juice
Olive oil
Super simple and easy
Bok Choy
So steam some bok choy
Liberally cover the skin side of fish with salt and a touch o pepper
smash up garlic
dice/smoosh anchovy filets
heat pan with a dash of olive oil and butter in it.
Once it starts sizzling chuck in garlic and anchovy and capers
add a dash of lemon juice and sizzle away till garlic is browned
Place bok choy on plate
stick fish on top of it
pour sauce on top of fish
While I was in France, I had the pleasure of eating this particular entree which was spectacular. It consists of a nice chevre (goat's cheese), cut like a sandwich with olive jam smeared through the middle. Then a green salad with sticky basalmic vinegar (i use Chris Jarman's) topped it off. Simple delicious.
A shop called Olivier's & Co on Rue Mouffetard, 5 eme Paris, stocked a version of this olive jam which also has lemony goodness in it – its salty and sweet and has this incredible complex yumminess to it.
Unfortunately everyone in Australia looks at you strangely if you ask for an olive jam.
BUT I found an online recipe at The traveler's Lunchbox. Check it out!
If however you are teh LAZY like me I made up a simpler version
- Buy a nice kalamata olive tapenade – mine was a wonderful mix of kalamata olives, olive oil, garlic, pepper, dijon mustard and anchovy.
- Boil some water with lemon zest, some slices of lemon, honey, green apple and sugar. Fiddle with proportions as you see fit.
- (For the record I made a small container – approx 150gm of olive tapenade, 300ml water, 1/3 lemon + zest, 1 green apple, 5 teaspoons honey, 4 teaspoons sugar.)
- Boil your mixture down a bit until the apple goes somewhat mushy.
- Strain and squash out as much juice as you can. I keep the smooshy apple bits to put in the jam.
- Pop the olive tapenade into a small pot, whack in the liquid and smooshy apple bits, and reduce on low heat to desired thickness. Keep tasting and fiddle – depending on how salty your tapenade is, you may want to add in a bit more sugar/honey, or a bit more citrusy lemon.
Stick in the fridge. and tomorrow you will have a fantastically tasty olive jam. Spread it on nice crusty bread or do the above recipe. I did this for PBL minus the green salad – just smear a bit of chevre onto a wafer cracker, bit o' jam and a tiny drizzle of sticky basalmic.


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Dr. Wells lay in her improvised seat aboard the Soyuz capsule grinning from ear to ear. It had taken her years to get to this: the college work, application to the space program, the astronaut training. And now here she was, strapped into position aboard the Soyuz which had just docked with the International Space Station.
As the hatch opened, the three other cosmonauts unlatched their belts and floated freely about the cabin. Wells had to wait. She was in a special fourth seat configuration, which she was told, had never been used before. It was so exciting to be making history!
To accommodate the extra seat, the spacecraft carried no cargo - just her and the crew. She made the trip strapped into what looked like a medical stretcher, suspended via straps to the center of the cabin.
Although the time from launch to docking was only eight hours, the engineering team took no chances. They placed her on a liquid diet for several days in advance of the flight. She wore a catheter and, embarrassingly, a large anal plug. For a chance to go into space, she wasn't about to argue. Nor did she question the titanium bands on her wrists and ankles. They said it was all necessary for her and the crew's safety. All would be removed once aboard the ISS.
The crew Commander stayed behind once the two other cosmonauts cleared the cabin. "Welcome to the ISS," he said with a smile. "Let me help get you out of this and start your on-orbit orientation." Grasping various handles he floated around the cabin unsnapping the straps that help the seat in place. "Please accept my apologies but to release you we have to take you to one of the crew modules and get some tools."
And with that he grabbed a handle on the end of the seat and launched them both through the docking bay. Inside the ISS the crew was already busy at work. As she passed by one of her crew mates from the Soyuz and an onboard crew member, they smiled and nodded. She wanted to at least wave at them but about all she could manage was to turn her head slightly and nod back. It will be a relief to get out of this thing, she thought.
Eventually they found their way to one of the storage modules. They were surrounded on all sides with compartments, cargo netting and equipment strapped down in various ways. The Commander opened a bag that was attached to the wall with velcro and pulled out a couple of straps. One was fastened to the handle at the bottom end of her stretcher and another to the top. Then the Commander secured the straps to opposite sides of the walls to stabilize it and prevent it from drifting away.
"We're almost ready," he said to her looking her in the eyes, "just a few more minutes."
The Commander then went back to the another bag on the wall and pulled out a long cord and a comb. "This is your first time in space so I ask you to trust me on this. The first thing we need to do is get that hair of your's under control."
Wells knew what he was talking about. Normally astronauts are encouraged to cut their hair short but she was determined to keep her's. It was long and straight and went nearly to her waist. But even in the brief time that they have been weightless she could see that it had been floating everywhere.
"For your safety, I'm going to secure it with this tie first. There's a lot of fans and such up here and we don't want any accidents." So she floated secured to the stretcher while the Commander combed out her hair and wove it into a long ponytail from the top of her head.
He took his time and it was soothing for her. After all, she had been strapped to that stretcher for many hours. Not that it wasn't entirely unpleasant. She had been enjoying every bit of her confinement. If they had been back on Earth, she might have been embarrassed. But she had been training with the entire crew for a couple of years. They had no secrets and they must have known. She found the training sessions in tight quarters relaxing and a bit of a turn-on.
Eventually the Commander finished the hair project. Then he started unbuckling the straps on the stretcher. At long last she had her chance to experience total weightlessness. In looking down at her clothes, she realized that everybody else must have known how exciting the confinement had been. The crotch of her jumpsuit was soaked and smelled pretty strongly of sex. There were definitely no secrets with this crew.
Wells looked up and saw that the Commander also knew. He smiled slightly and said, "Come on, let's get you out of that jumpsuit so we can pull that catheter."
For a moment she became modest and was going to protest. Then she remembered where they were and who he was. There were no secrets between crew members. Without further thought she unsnapped the button at her neck, unzipped the front of the suit and pulled her arms and legs out. In an instant she was naked, with the exception of the catheter extending down her leg, the bag strapped to the outside of her calf and the security bands on her wrists and ankles.
She floated freely in center of the cabin. The Commander unlatched the stretcher from the straps and secured it to the wall behind a cargo net. As she floated around for a few moments of fun, the Commander went to another bag on the wall and pulled out a shiny metal tool that appeared to match her cuffs. Hooking his leg to a cargo net, he drifted close enough to Wells to grab a foot. "Shall we work on these?" he asked.
She stopped wiggling and tried to hold still. However, the Commander seemed to have trouble getting the cuff released. "I'm sorry," he said, "but this appears to be more difficult than I thought. Do you mind if I do something to get more leverage?" She nodded in agreement.
The Commander grabbed the clip at the end of the strap that had previously held the near end of the stretcher and snapped it onto her ankle cuff. Then he pushed off to the other side of the cabin where the other strap was connected. He grabbed that clip and snapped it on the ring that was at the end of her hair tie. That was amazing, she thought, how did he know to do that in advance? She was no longer floating but now held in a relatively motionless position by straps at both ends.
The Commander pushed off again and returned to her foot. "I see the problem now," he said. "Please bring your other foot over here together with this one." When she brought her foot over, she saw him make a couple of moves with the tool and felt the cuffs snap together. "Drat!" he said.
He pulled himself upward to her side, holding himself steady with one hand on a cargo net. "Once again, I offer my apologies. It seems I have used the wrong tool. I have the wrist cuff tool here when I should have used the one for the feet. Since I have you here, may I at least get the wrist cuffs off before I go back to the ankles? It's easier when you won't float away." She felt annoyed. But nobody ever said space was easy, she thought to herself.
Once again, she nodded in agreement. He took her arm and inserted the tool into a hole in the cuff. A small J-shaped piece protruded out. He then tried to reach for her other arm but, without gravity, she simply spun away. She laughed to herself and smiled.
The Commander did as well. "I know what to do," he said. "We need to keep you still." He then pulled a clip from his belt and snapped the cuff from the hand he was holding to the cargo net. Then he positioned himself on her other side and took hold of her other cuff. He inserted the tool into a hole and turned it. A small slot opened up. Then, in a quick move, he brought the two cuffs together behind her back. They snapped tightly together.
"Oh! Look what I have done!" he said.
He unsnapped the clip to the cargo net and moved up to the strap connecting her hair to the wall. He pulled it until there was no slack from either the straps or her body. For a moment, Wells said nothing. Somehow she was expecting that he would unsnap something or release her. Instead, he went back to one of the bags on the wall and pulled out an large hinged titanium ring like the ones she was already wearing. Working quickly, he fastened it around her waist, snapping it together at the front.
He then used her body like yet another hand support and went around behind her. He felt her grab the wrist cuffs and snap them to the waist cuff. In what seemed like seconds, she was entirely immobile. But that didn't seem to be enough for the Commander. He went back to the bags on the wall and pulled out more rings. A set was snapped on her above and below her knees. And another pair were fastened above her elbows. She saw the Commander bring a short piece of metal out of the bag. He went behind her again and felt her elbows get locked together.
Finally, the stunned feeling began to wear off a bit. "What are you doing to me?" she asked meekly. She began to cry.
The Commander watched in a amusement as a tear floated away from her face. "Please let me explain Dr. Wells. Hasn't it occurred to you that everyone aboard the station has a specific science mission? You got onboard without one. Everybody on this crew has been in their space program for at least a decade. You were admitted to your space program just two years ago. And immediately you were assigned to a flight. Why? The space program has been looking for somebody like you for years. You're a foster child and don't have any family. Nobody is going to miss you. Officially your mass at launch was accounted for as cargo. Nobody knows you're here except us".
"It was quite obvious early on in training that you were quite comfortable with bondage and confinement. So you were put at the front of the line. The space program needs to know what happens to astronauts long-term in zero-gravity. On previous missions, we studied bone loss but never let it go too far because the astronaut would eventually have to go home to Earth. You're not going home Dr. Wells. You're staying right here".
"We're going to keep you tethered here and there aboard the ISS so we can study what happens to your skeleton. By our estimates, after a couple of years you will have lost so much bone that you'd never survive the return trip to Earth. Maybe your bones will dissolve entirely, turning you into floating human jellyfish. For the sake of science we need to know. So we'll track your progress as you waste away. That liquid diet you were on? Get used to it. Since you're not moving anywhere from now on you're on low-calorie intake. We'll leave that catheter and butt-plug in because we like to keep things tidy up here".
"And if you don't cooperate, we've got feeding tubes that we can use to keep you alive. Also, we'll be including some birth control in your food as well. Like I said, we like to keep things tidy up here. And just to let you know, we might untether you now and then to make use of that wonderfully wet pussy of yours. After all, it gets awfully lonely up here in space. Since you've been so accommodating so far, please allow me to reposition you to the Observation Deck. The view is fantastic and each of the crew are anxious to experience sex in space."
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Asia Durr scored 25 points and No. 4 Louisville overcame a first-half lull to beat Vanderbilt 79-57 on Thursday night.
The Cardinals (10-0) held the Commodores scoreless for more than a quarter, turning a 33-29 deficit with 4:38 left in the first half into a 24-point lead with 3:56 left in the third. Rachel Bell made a 3-pointer with 3:28 left in the third period to end the Commodores' drought.
Durr scored 14 points in the third quarter as the Cardinals built a 31-point lead late in the period.
The Cardinals came into the game as the 10th-best shooting team in the country at 49.8 percent, but it was the Commodores, namely Bell, who had the hot hand early. The senior guard scored 16 of her 21 points in the first quarter and the Commodores shot 61.5 percent to overcome a 10-2 Louisville start and take a 24-20 lead after the first break.
Arica Carter and Sam Fuehring matched their career highs with 15 and 14 points, respectively, for the Cardinals, who forced 26 turnovers and held the Commodores to 40.4 percent shooting overall.
Vanderbilt: Aside from Bell and freshman Chelsie Hall, who finished with 16 points, the Commodores struggled mightily against Louisville. The rest of the team combined to go 7 for 24 from the field.
Louisville: The Cardinals continued their sharp free throw shooting. After entering the game seventh in the country making 78.3 percent of their free throws, the Cardinals improved on that mark by making 19 of 22. Louisville shot just 69.2 percent from the free throw line last season.
Louisville: The Cardinals again have just one day between games as they will host Middle Tennessee on Saturday. The Blue Raiders beat Vanderbilt 65-54 in Nashville on Nov. 10.
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